->   Re: Apocalyptic Fiction
->   By: FRANK SCHEIDT to KURT WEISKE on Sat Sep 17 2011 02:56 pm
-> 
->  > BTW, I'm no-longer certain how to do either, but directions must be
on a
->  > computer somewhere ... heh heh heh ...
-> 
-> It depends on the apocalypse. If the libraries survive, we could be
pretty
-> well off. I think of all of the data I have on my computer - hundreds of
pages
-> of documents, a book I'm working on, and 9000+ pictures at last count,
most of
-> which exist only in electronic form.
-> 
-> I'm a film photography buff, so in addition I have boxes of photos, but
a LOT
-> of my art/content/etc could be gone in a flash.

Very sad -- but very true.  *I* have a photograph which I prize very, very
highly.  I took it of my father and our pet BlueJay back in 1940 or so. 
It's a black and white picture, of course, and looks as good now as it did
when I took it, seventy-one years ago.  And it requires no special
equipment to view it.

A few years ago I bought a microscope.  One option was to have it show the
image on a computer screen which would be nice.  However the way computer
software goes, it would be within the realm of possibility that within a
few years there would be no way I could use that microscope.  So I bought
the version which was purely optical and mechanical!
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